Example sentences of "[verb] of a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know of a UK distributor , but Photon is available in the USA via Phi Technologies , Box 100087 , Nashville , TN 37210 . |
| 2 | To the Government , ‘ grants ’ smacked of a dependency culture and central planning , whereas funding allowed for competitive bidding and the allocative magic of the market place . |
| 3 | Today 's announcement of the drive for union members smacked of a victory celebration , surely a little premature ahead of Thursday 's vote ? |
| 4 | Such applicants may be asked to take a test or take part in some other selection procedure to assess whether they are likely to be able to cope with the work expected of a university student . |
| 5 | However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier . |
| 6 | Another phospholipase A 2 -derived lipid , platelet-activating factor , also has some of the properties expected of a retrograde messenger . |
| 7 | As expected of a de-luxe hotel , the well-hotel , the well-appointed rooms feature bath/WC , radio , telephone , TV and minibar and some have a balcony . |
| 8 | However , we will find it of much more use in the context here to conceive of a knowledge worker as someone who actually adds value to the message itself , and not just to the message 's package , by processes of analysis , judgement , and higher-level decision making . |
| 9 | Whilst it is not possible to conceive of a designing system which can take into account influences which are beyond the designer 's knowledge and comprehension , it is possible to generate a fundamental design procedure in which all relationships , known to the designer , are " captured " and tested for . |
| 10 | It comes through friendship with June ( Elizabeth Perkins ) , an attractive young woman dying of a brain tumour , and through the mortifying experience of hospital bureaucracy from the other side of the counter . |
| 11 | She had been reminded of a school outing , with the guide leading the party in a crocodile down man-made stairways protected by iron railings , stopping every few yards to bombard his audience with statistics or manipulate the complex lighting and communication system . |
| 12 | She coughed and nodded towards a section that was cordoned off , where the tables were laid with cloths and Dexter was reminded of a holiday hotel on the Costa Brava . |
| 13 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 14 | Thus Mayhew , who was a journalist and not a sociologist , writes of a coster lad as saying of his life , |
| 15 | Defining the relative fluctuations in mass density as where is the mean mass density of the Universe , we can relate the variance , , of mass-density fluctuations on a scale R to the power spectrum by Rayleigh 's theorem where is the Fourier transform of a window function on a scale R . |
| 16 | In the case of a sale of leasehold property where the lessor 's licence to assign is required , the form of licence sometimes requires signing of a counterpart licence by the seller , and frequently by the buyer too , whereby the latter explicitly becomes responsible for the tenant 's covenants in the lease ; this is a reminder in case the seller must execute the document . |
| 17 | He shouted to the protesters : ‘ I ask you citizens of Derry , do you approve of a crash programme of 2,000 houses ? ’ |
| 18 | Apart from the obvious disadvantage of not being able to view your slide without a projector or viewer , the problem arises when one wants an extra set of slides or prints , say of a spawning sequence . |
| 19 | Yet what do we then make of a Gallup finding ( 21 — 6 May 1987 ) that , when asked to choose between inflation and unemployment as the greater threat to them and their families , 49 per cent chose inflation and only 43 per cent unemployment ? |
| 20 | Take for example the reversal , or split ess ( Fig. 9.5 ) , consisting of a half roll followed by a half loop . |
| 21 | It was reported that an offer had been made of leasehold premises in Oxford Street , between Rathbone Place and Newman Street , lately occupied by Mr Burr , stable-keeper , consisting of a dwelling house , yard , nine coach houses , 14 stables containing 51 stalls , and a covered ride . |
| 22 | ( a ) The prohibition in paragraph ( 2 ) of this rule shall not apply to a business consisting of a management consultancy or a company secretarial service and which offers none of the services specified in that paragraph save the drafting of documents under sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( j ) and the giving of legal advice , provided such drafting or advice is ancillary to the main purpose of the business . |
| 23 | The door next passed to a specially constructed machine , which cut the three grooves for the hinges : these were then fixed by screws , after which the door was ready for testing in the gauge , the latter consisting of a metal frame providing a replica of the door opening in a coach . |
| 24 | Embryos or cells are fixed , extracted and stained in specially constructed glass chambers consisting of a glass washer ( 1.5 mm thick and 25 mm external diameter ) to which a glass coverslip has been attached using paraffin wax ( 46 ) . |
| 25 | This was in the heart of the Champs Elysées and was a subterranean establishment consisting of a swimming pool , a Turkish bath and a cabaret : |
| 26 | Head are offering three fantastic first prizes , consisting of a Ventoris tennis racquet , a pair of Ventora tennis shoes and a Head deluxe tennis thermo bag . |
| 27 | The Chancel part is the house which is plastered over and whitewashed , consisting of a ground room or kitchen with one or two chambers over it , near the south east buttress , a small door is broken through , for an entrance to the house . |
| 28 | The sphere cutting jig is pretty simple , consisting of a steel bar with the tool post mounted on it . |
| 29 | Applications can be written using the T1 software suite supplies consisting of a C compiler , assembler and linker . |
| 30 | And it contains a subordinate clause of time , followed by a complicated subject nominal consisting of a quantifier head plus a relative clause with deleted ‘ that ’ . |